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This is our seventh introductory blog post to The Power in Story, a three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Aaron Stern, Academy Founder and President, and Chrissie ...

This is the fifth introductory blog post to The Power in Story, our upcoming three-part series exploring learning and transformation through story. Designed and facilitated by Chrissie Orr, co-founder of El Otro Lado and the Institute for ...

Institute For Living Story

Institute For Living Story

Catalyzing Learning Through Arts and Community Engagement

Creative expression and storytelling are powerful pathways to learning and waking up. They can be a catalyst for connection and positive change, inspiring open and respectful dialog and empowering our community.

The Institute for Living Story offers a series of programs and research initiatives that use arts and engagement as a vehicle to enliven open and respectful conversation and deep listening, nurture meaningful intergenerational exchange and stimulate meaningful collaborations and partnerships. It intentionally involves diverse constituencies in collaborative, art and story based work and holds a deep value around reciprocity between artist, individuals, organizations and communities.

Institute for Living Story currently offers the following ongoing programs and emerging initiatives:

Lifesongs

Story Gathering

Living Story Collaborative

El Otro Lado In the Community

The Academy’s arts and community engagement programs and events, collaborations and research initiatives with other organizations and place-based projects.

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